Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes at Beacon Arts Centre

Over more than a decade Lachlan Bryan has built a reputation as a master storyteller, regardless of whether he’s performing solo, fronting his band The Wildes.

In 2025, Lachlan Bryan & The Wildes will be appearing in “full band mode” in the UK for the first time. Despite iconic performances at Maverick Festival in 2019, 2023 and 2024 and many shows around these Isles both as headliner and support-act for good friends Hannah Aldridge and Alan Fletcher, the band has mostly travelled the Northern Hemisphere as a three piece. That all changes this year as usual suspects Lachlan, Riley Catherall (guitar) and Shaun Ryan (bass) are joined by Ben Middleton on drums and Yorkshire’s own Emily Lawler on the fiddle and viola